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How to Start a Cut: The 5 “Edit Drivers”
July 21, 2020
Film Editing Pro
This quick edit tip will create a solid foundation for your edit.
Watch the video (or read the transcript below) and find out how to determine which element on your timeline will drive the cut and how it serves as the backbone of your piece!
There are five different types of edit drivers.
- Dialogue
First, there’s dialogue. It’s the primary driver in most interviews as well as conversation scenes in movies and primetime television shows.
Perhaps the purest distillation of dialogue scene drivers are animatics, pre-visualizations produced for animation programs. Most animation content starts its life as a virtual radio play, with storyboards produced later to dramatize the dialogue. In animatics, dialogue informs the pacing before expensive final animation is produced.
Whatever the genre, if your character’s lines are what’s driving the pacing and structure of the scene, start by cutting dialogue first and filling in the picture to match.
- Narration
Next, there’s narration, used frequently in documentaries, promos, instructional videos… and, of course, YouTube videos. When we create our tips and tutorial videos here at Film Editing Pro, we lay out narration out first, then cut everything from music, sound effects, and video around, under and over that.
Building out a narration track is like a road map, providing you with signs posting where and what your visuals and sound effects will be.
- Music